Friendship & politics : essays in political thought / / edited by John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko

• Pubblicazione: Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetto topico: Political science - Philosophy; Friendship - Political aspects
• Altri autori: HeykingJohn von AvramenkoRichard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Platonic philia and political order / James M. Rhodes -- Taking friendship seriously : Aristotle on the place(s) of philia in human life / Stephen Salkever -- Cicero's distinctive voice on friendship : De amicitia and De re publica / Walter Nicgorski -- The luminous path of friendship : Augustine's account of friendship and political order / John von Heyking -- A companionship of caritas : friendship in St. Thomas Aquinas / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler -- Friendship in the civic order : a reformation absence / Thomas Heilke -- Plato and Montaigne : ancient and modern ideas of friendship / Timothy Fuller -- Hobbes on getting by with little help from friends / Travis D. Smith -- Social friendship in the founding era / George Carey -- It is not good for man to be alone : Tocqueville on friendship / Joshua Mitchell -- Zarathustra and his asinine friends : Nietzsche and taste as the groundless ground of friendship / Richard Avramenko -- Friendship, trust, and political order : a critical overview / Jurgen Gebhardt.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume assembles essays by well-known scholars who address contemporary concerns about community in the context of philosophical ideas about friendship.
• Altri titoli varianti: Friendship and politics
• Titolo autorizzato: Friendship & politics
• ISBN: 0-268-09550-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817637103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II